Resource reservations in advance are a mature concept for the allocation of various resources, particularly in grid environments. Common grid toolkits such as Globus support advance reservations and assign jobs to resources at admission time. While the allocation mechanisms for advance reservations are available in current grid management systems, in case of failures the advance reservation per...

Dedicated Responses to Anonymous Referee #3 We would like to thank Anonymous Referee #3 for providing a constructive and very helpful review of the manuscript. We believe that the comments helped improving the overall quality of the manuscript. Please find following dedicated responses to each point raised by the referee. Anonymous Referee #3 (AR #3): The analytical approach involves: 1). shift...

There are three possible approaches to investigating environmental change using organisms as proxies: comparison of spatial surveys from different time periods, timeseries studies, and high resolution studies of cores. Because they have a preservable shell and are abundant, benthic foraminifera are the best meiofaunal group for giving a proxy record of past marine and marginal marine environmen...

This paper proposes a novel approach to measure and analyze the effect of temperature on electricity demand. This temperature effect is specified as a function of the density of temperatures observed at a high frequency with a functional coefficient, which we call the temperature response function. This approach contrasts with the usual approach to model the temperature effect as a function of ...

In this paper, we apply Ritz variational approach to a new isochemical model of H2 molecule suggested by Santilli and Shillady. We studied Gaussian, Vg, and exponential, Ve, screened Coloumb potential approximations, as well as the original Hulten potential, Vh, case. Both the Coloumb and exchange integrals have been calculated only for Ve owing to Gegenbauer expansion while for Vg and Vh cases...

Solar geoengineering has been proposed as a method of meeting climate objectives, such as reduced globally averaged surface temperatures. However, because of incomplete understanding of the effects of geoengineering on the climate system, its implementation would be in the presence of substantial uncertainties. In our study, we use two fully coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models: ...

This paper develops a probabilistic decision making framework for reliability management in the short-term operational planning context. We build upon our recent work, which proposed a probabilistic reliability management approach and criterion (RMAC) for the latest decision making opportunity of real-time system operation. Here, we transpose the RMAC to the preceding problem instance of short-...